How far would you go to secure your own legacy? That is the question at the heart of Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose writer-director Scott Derrickson’s return to horror after helming the underrated sci-fi remake The Day the Earth Stood Still.

The DLB had the privilege today of interviewing Guillermo Del Toro, the man behind such beloved genre properties as Mimic, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy and the upcoming big screen version of the 1973 TV movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, out August 26. We asked Mr. Del Toro about his and co-writer Chuck Hogan’s upcoming book, The Night Eternal, the final installment in the vampire trilogy started with The Strain and The Fall.

The final installment of The Strain trilogy, The Night Eternal, comes out in October. Without giving away too much, what can you tell us about Eph Goodweather and The Master?

We just finished the corrections to the first galleys two days ago; literally two days ago in the morning I was sending my last corrections. And it’s the darkest of the three books. At the same time it has some of the most mythical origins of the creatures. You explain where The Master comes from, you explain where all vampires come from, and it goes back to ancient times. And so you have a chapter or two in ancient times, you have a chapter in ancient Rome. And I promised in the first book, when people interviewed me about the trilogy, I said you’re going to see characters you like do things you don’t like and characters you don’t like do things you like, and I think we delivered in the third book. Not everyone ends well! (laughs) In the second book we killed one of the dearest characters, which was Setrakian, and I think the body count in the third one is pretty high.

The Dark Lord Bunnykins had the chance this afternoon to speak to Dominic Cooper, the British star of the upcoming “gangster” film The Devil’s Double. Cooper, who can currently be seen on screens as Iron Man’s daddy Howard Stark in Captain America: The First Avenger, plays both Uday Hussein, Saddam’s psychopathic son, and his double, Latif Yahia, who spent years in real life doubling as Uday in case of assassination attempts.

Director Adam Green’s 2006 old-school slasher film Hatchet — about a deformed killer named Victor Crowley who haunts a Louisiana swamp — has spawned a sequel, Hatchet II, which hits Blu-ray and DVD in the US tomorrow (Feb. 1) and in Canada on Feb. 15. The DLB spoke to Green for Rue Morgue Magazine (read the rest of the interview here) and asked him about his future projects, including an adaptation of the Greg Taylor YA novel Killer Pizza, his part of the horror anthology Chillerama, and the possibility of a third Hatchet film.

That, my lovelies, is the gruesome cover art for Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead by ex-Rue Morgue editor-in-chief and friend Jovanka Vuckovic. It’s available for pre-order now on Amazon.com and is due out Feb 1 from St. Martin’s Press in the US and Ilex Press in the UK. The cover comes courtesy of The Walking Dead artists Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn.

We’ll be sure to keep tabs on this project, as well as Jovanka’s upcoming directorial debut, The Captured Bird. Follow that project’s development on http://www.thecapturedbird.com/.

Toronto Goth punk band Cadillacs and Cadavers (http://www.myspace.com/cadillaccadaver) provided the musical entertainment last night at Toronto’s Cherry Cola Lounge for the launch party of Andrea Subissati’s new book “When There’s No More Room In Hell,” an academic text which examines the zombie phenomenon from a sociological perspective.

Proving that the love of horror is worldwide is Cape Town’s 10-day Horrorfest. Running Oct. 28 to Nov. 5, Horrorfest, now in its sixth year, is the Halloween event in Africa and includes screenings of new and old films, shorts, a live soundtrack performance by The Makabra Ensemble (http://www.terminatryx.com/makabra.htm), prizes & giveaways, and an amazing after party.